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Jason Calacanis is the founder of Mahalo.com but has been most visible as the founder of the This Week In network that has shows such as This Week in Startups and This Week in Venture Capital. I’d recommend both for startups in the technology arena. He famously took on angel groups such as the Keiretsu Forum for charging startups to pitch. Business Insider reported on the timing of Keiretsu changing their policy at the same time as Calacanis took them on.
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Survey of Puget Sound area executives and business leaders reveals less satisfaction with new customer growth in 2010, renewed focus on CRM and social media in 2011 Over 70 percent of business leaders were encouraged by their organization’s ability to adapt to business challenges faced in 2010, and an even higher percentage (80 percent) are optimistic about their 2011 outlook. This encouraging economic signal was reflected in a recently completed survey of 100 Puget Sound area business leaders and …
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I have written posts here and on TechCrunch about the Social Commerce (group buying and private sales) trend as embodied by companies such as local companies like Zulily as well as the granddaddy of them all – Groupon.
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In the piece I wrote for Huffington Post, I touch on how the new health law sets the table for Seattle-based Qliance which is a pioneer in a new, better model for getting most of your healthcare needs addressed. A key part of my background was starting my career at what is now Accenture in their healthcare practice working on the interface between providers and payors. I later founded Microsoft’s healthcare business. This gave me a perspective on just how crazy our existing model is for 99% of the …
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I wrote a guest post for TechCrunch that has resulted in almost 700 tweets, FB likes and Google Buzzes not to mention several emails from VCs and pedigreed entrepreneurs (e.g., folks who’ve sold companies to Microsoft and Google). Apparently, I struck a nerve.
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Today’s post is a guest post from the CEO of a Seattle startup in the business of improving the customer service call centers of their customers. Since customer service is critical to virtually every startup, particularly those in e-commerce, I thought this would be a topic of interest.
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As the home of Amazon, Seattle can make the case we’re the e-commerce capital of the world though I’m sure Silicon Valley would beg to differ. One of the other feathers in Seattle’s e-commerce hat is Blue Nile. Some of the key players from Blue Nile are now running the Maveron-backed Zulily that is part of one of the hottest trends in e-commerce – Private Sales.
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Seattle-based and Intel-backed Delve Networks has shown themselves to be smart about drafting off of national news to demonstrate their capabilities as I blogged about last year. Delve’s iPad support is the latest example. Last year, Delve showed in one of the coolest demos I’ve seen how they were the only “intelligent” video platform by showing their Search Inside feature using the Obama Inaugural. Delve has claimed that their customer’s who use the Search Inside feature see a 300% increase in …
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